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Choosing Their Own Style : Identity Emergence Among Haitian Youth in Québec
Overview
Choosing Their Own Style examines identity issues among Haitian youth in Quebec. Since Quebec is a Francophone society in Anglophone North America, linguistic and cultural confusion often causes immigrants to assume multiple identities in order to fit in. Examining how young Haitians - an integral part of the provincial mosaic - are influenced by this complicated social and cultural paradigm, this book illustrates how Haitian youth are currently identifying and expressing themselves in Quebec, and demonstrates how they resist categorization into a fixed ethnocultural group, creating a distinct, still-emerging societal and cultural classification of their own.
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- ISBN-13: 9780820478685
- ISBN-10: 0820478687
- Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
- Publish Date: July 2005
- Page Count: 184
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